I noticed that Google maps is providing directions in my local language (hungarian) when I am using google chrome, but English language directions when I am using it from IE.
I would like to know how chrome figures this out and how can I write code that is always returning directions on the user's language.
HTTPrequests` include an Accept-Language header which is set according to your locale preferences on most OS/browser combinations. Google uses a combination of that, the local domain you use (eg 'google.it', 'google.hu') and any preferences you set with the Preferences link in the home page to assign a language to your pages.
It's likely that IE is misrepresenting your locale to Google Maps, whereas Chrome has correctly guessed it. You can change IE's locale by changing your national settings in Control Panel, while Chrome's locale can be changed in (wrench menu) > Preferences.
I could be way off but I think it's fairly safe to assume that google, is using gears.
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I'm trying to browse this url: googleweblight.com/?lite_url=http://www.google.com
but I'm not able to, since I got:
Transcoding test failed:
This page could not be transcoded due to technical issues.
The problem is that I need to copy paste every search result I get from google search page into googleweblight.com/?lite_url=[here]
Why am I not able to use googleweblight for google? How can I make my urls go to googleweblight version directly, without copy and paste and not using a device emulator in user agent?
On Firefox, I am using the UAControl add-on to change my browser's User-Agent to Mobile Safari, and it gives me the mobile version of Google Search, which by default has all search result URLs pointing via GoogleWebLight.
In fact, since I didn't want the URLs to be redirected via GoogleWebLight as such, I had to write a GreaseMonkey script to convert them back to 'regular' (direct) URLs. Maybe you can modify it to do the opposite on the Google Search page, if you're not comfortable with the User-Agent switch approach. I believe you can utilize something like TamperMonkey if you're on a different browser such as Google Chrome.
I have been trying and searching all over the place to see if this even exists, I have been looking at the Google Maps iOS URL Schema, and this would be perfect for what I would need on one of my websites, BUT, the main feature of my website requires way points to be used.
For example:
This route which contains a waypoint
Where the to and from are not a direct route.
Now I would like to be able to send the above route to the Google Maps iOS application using a URL Schema (if possible). Are there any Google Map Experts here? Or even a way to get the above into the iOS application another way?
For both Safari & Chrome latest versions (at 2013-Jun-10th) iOS 6.0.1
The next URL scheme also works as an "href" in both browsers,
or in the Safari address bar.
maps:q=GivenTitle#latitude,longtitude
When I'm viewing the downloaded resources for a page in the Chrome web inspector, I also see the HTML/JS/CSS requested by certain extensions.
In the example above, indicator.html, indicator.js and indicator.css are actually part of the Readability Chrome extension, not part of my app.
This isn't too big a deal in this particular situation, but on a more complex page and with several extensions installed, it can get quite crowded in there!
I was wondering if there was a way to filter out any extension-related resources from this list (i.e. any requests using the chrome-extension:// protocol).
Does anyone know how I could achieve this?
Not quite the solution I was after (I'd have preferred a global setting), but there is now a way to filter out requests from extensions, as mentioned by a commenter on the issue I originally opened.
In the network tab filter box, enter the string -scheme:chrome-extension (as shown below):
This is case-sensitive, so make sure it's lowercase. Doing this will hide all resources which were requested by extensions.
Just enter "-f" in Network field
Was having the same question when my extension adds a lot of noise in the network tab.
Some extensions also fire a lot of data like data:text/image etc, you can append more filter with - like:
-scheme:chrome-extension -scheme:data
Another way to get the http/https requests is to just use scheme:https without - because the resources that extensions request are usually from their local bundle:
scheme:https
An Incognito Window, can be configured to include or exclude extensions from the extensions page of Chrome settings.
One alternative is to go to "Network Request blocking" tab and add "chrome-extension:" to the list, thus extension requests will be blocked and coloured red so it's easy to visually filter them out.
you can simply enable this option and requests from extension will be group.
Update: It can only group requests that create by the extension that draw iframe, such as cVim
I want to use google drive to store the files, but allow the users of my website to be able to edit them transparently, so that they don't have to go to google drive's website.
Is this possible with the current API? Thus far I have only seen how to create an app for them to install in google drive, or doing something like DrEdit (https://developers.google.com/drive/examples/), which parses the files to JSON and uses the ACE editor, which is definitely not what I want.
EDIT:
I believe it is not possible to do this with Google Drive, I've decided to go with Zoho Docs instead.
Yes it's possible. The biggest consideration is how much formatting you want to support. Eg. if it's plain text, it's very simple. If you want to support character or layout formatting, it becomes more complex.
I don't believe its possible to embed the editor (or even embed a preview!) using an iframe, because if you look at how the google docs page loads, it first redirects you to the login page, and that automatically logs you in if you are already logged in, and redirects you back to the docs editor.
This means that the iframe would have to at least pass through the login page, even if the user doesn't need to enter anything. However, google's login page has the x-frame-option header set to SAMEORIGIN (or deny?), and thus, the browser refuses to display it, and thus you can't actually get logged in!
The only way I've found to enable just preview embedding (not editing), is to publish the document first (via the File->publish to web menu item).
I am developing an extension for chrome, which sets a search engine as default with out any UI interaction(Edit search Engines). Is it possible to develop this kind of extensions. Is there any way such that I can override or use some functions in chrome source code.
Thanks
sathi.
Currently, it is not possible. The closest you can do right now is use the experimental omnibox API to register your own custom keyword.
Feel free to file a feature request at http://crbug.com if you would like to see an API like this in Chrome. Depending on your use case, there could be a better way doing what you wanted. Changing search engines isn't favourable without user intervention..